An illustrated story of European knowledge, sovereign AI and the proposed Counterfold platform. Text is in English; the opening Heine verse is in German. Music is optional. Product capabilities and pilots are proposed; demonstrations use fictional data.
Our knowledge. Our future.
„Ein neues Lied, ein besseres Lied,
O Freunde, will ich euch dichten!
Wir wollen hier auf Erden schon
Das Himmelreich errichten.“
Heinrich Heine, Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen
Shape the future.
Leibniz sought to make reasoning verifiable.
We connect knowledge to infer what may follow from our decisions, under explicit assumptions.
Europe must develop and control the tools to do so.
Leibniz, The True Method, c. 1677. Our modern interpretation.
AI model development is concentrated.
59 in the US. 35 in China. 2 in Europe.
Selected notable AI models released in 2025.
European leadership requires the ability to build.
Stanford AI Index 2026, Figure 1.1.2. Epoch selection, as of 22 April 2026. Europe is not the EU; regional attributions may overlap.
A sovereign European platform.
We are building a platform that connects an organisation’s knowledge within defined access rights.
Evaluated models and agents, governed by clear permissions, are designed to improve productivity.
Proposed architecture. Full client deployment and measurable benefits remain to be validated.
Eridanos
Phaethon loses control of the sun chariot and falls into the river Eridanos.
Eridanos connects authorised sources, revealing their origins, gaps and contradictions.
Proposed client capability.
Ariadne
Ariadne gives Theseus the thread that leads him out of the labyrinth.
Ariadne connects customers, resources and rules in an ontology: a shared model of their relationships.
Proposed client capability.
Polydeuces
Polydeuces, son of Zeus, shares his immortality with his twin, Castor.
Polydeuces unites commitments, capacity and risks in a verifiable digital twin of the organisation.
Proposed client capability.
Icarus
Icarus flies too close to the sun on crafted wings. The wax melts.
Icarus compares plausible scenarios under explicit assumptions, making uncertainty visible before we act.
Proposed client capability. Scenarios are not certain predictions.
Solon
Solon, a lawgiver in ancient Athens, sought to order civic life through shared rules.
Solon is designed to coordinate agents, models and tools within the client’s access rights.
Proposed client capability. Sensitive actions require appropriate approval.
The client remains in control.
Planned: all software and suitable local models run within the client’s infrastructure.
Agents for each professional role use authorised sources.
Permissions remain separate. People remain accountable.
Security requires technical and organisational controls.
Intelligence as a service.
Our aim is to deliver complete analyses to the people who need them, with less searching through dashboards.
A decision twin would preserve authorised decisions and their reasoning to inform future cases.
Planned; still to be evaluated. Current leadership retains authority.
A European market.
305,527 enterprises in the EU, including 1,148 in Luxembourg.
Each with at least 50 people employed in 2024.
We target organisations with complex operations and sensitive data.
Eurostat, 2024 data, published 30 September 2026. Potential market by enterprise count, not a revenue forecast. Public administration excluded.
Show the vision. Measure the value.
Eight public demos illustrate the vision.
A planned paid pilot will compare time, quality and total costs against a baseline to measure business value.
Fictional operational data and rule-based calculations. No live AI or connections to client systems.
Our knowledge. In our hands.
Prometheus brings fire, numbers and writing: the means to understand the world and preserve what we learn.
European leadership begins by building this future ourselves.
A modern interpretation of Prometheus Bound. counterfold.com · info@counterfold.com